The Bermuda School of Music's (BSM) free violin lessons for P1 and P2 students at two Government schools are in danger of being reduced due to a lack of funding.
At present the students at Purvis Primary and Victor Scott schools receive two free less...
Bernella Williams has every reason to smile proudly at the pictures of her sons.
Because almost single-handedly she has raised eight boys - who are all excelling in fields ranging from medical research, law, business and computers.
An Antiguan native...
May is asthma awareness month and a new asthma booklet specifically edited to reflect the Bermuda experience has been produced by asthma charity Open Airways.
The 17-page information booklet is in an easy to read format, covering questions like: What...
Dr. Alex Pieterse was born into the fight against racism. After all, he was born during the height of apartheid in South Africa, a legalised system which separated the races.
Now residing in the US as an educator, Dr. Pieterse, 42, a father of two bo...
The sons of Bernella Williams see her as their rock and motivation to help them to stay focused.
"My mother is a woman of great faith. When she sets her mind to any task she completes it, no matter what it is. I'm glad she is my mother and not somebo...
A big pill to swallow
May 17th, 2008
Dear Sir,
"Fifteen percent is added for your convenience". An automatic gratuity added to food and beverage consumed in most restaurants and hotels in Bermuda. Forty some years ago when hotels incorporated the sch...
Whitney Institute Middle School will close this summer unless Government can come up with an emergency plan to renovate its termite-infested ageing building.
The school's trustees have written to the Ministry of Education to say they are not prepared...
DATE: May 20, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Ten new HIV cases have been diagnosed in Bermuda in just the first five months of the year versus 17 in the whole of 2007.
That's why Caroline Armstrong, the director of Supportive Therapy for AIDS Persons and their Relatives (STAR) and AIDS walk org...
Work permit time limits have not led to the exodus of foreign workers from Bermuda that some had predicted, employment services expert Doug Soares told a conference in the Cayman Islands last week.
But Mr. Soares, a partner at Bermuda employment serv...
DATE: May 19, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
Whitney Institute Middle School will close this summer, its board of trustees told the Ministry of Education today, The Royal Gazette understands.
Staff are said to be angry with the increasingly dilapidated state of the building and no longer consid...
DATE: May 19, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
